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After breakfast, he remains at the table, reads out loud from Sunlit Days (a poem and a prayer for each day of the year). Then a guest reads to him from My Daily Meditation by the late Rev. J. H. Jowett and from a modern version of the New Testament.
He reads the New York Times, consults with his secretary, strolls about the estate whistling and singing to himself. His voice is a rather pleasant baritone.
Golf follows, usually nine holes. His best score, made at Pocantico when he was 65, was a 39. His average is between 45 and 55.
Before luncheon, his biggest meal, he takes a short nap (10 to 20 minutes). In the afternoon he goes for an automobile ride in his Cadillac, Lincoln, or old favorite Crane-Simplex. He likes to map out new routes for his chauffeur, to travel at least 35 m.p.h.
Another nap and the New York Evening Post occupy him before supper, at which from four to a dozen guests are present. In the evening he listens to music (there is a magnificent pipe organ at Pocantico), and plays a game called Numerica. No card advocate, he enjoys Numerica with its 52 chips, numbered from 1 to 13, with four of each number. The object of the game is to build four stacks of numbers from 1 to 13. It requires no little mathematical skill in marshalling the right chips at the right moment. Seldom has Mr. Rockefeller faced opponents who could best him at Numerica.
And so to bed, always at 10 p. m.
Except for his after-breakfast books and his newspapers, Mr. Rockefeller reads but little.
*His height is 5 ft., 10 in. Twenty and thirty years ago, he weighed in the vicinity of 200 pounds.
*The original partners were Stephen V. Harkness, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, John D. and William Rockefeller. Later, the following names were conspicuous in Standard Oil: Peter H. Watson, Charles Lockhart, W. G. Warden, Henry H. Rogers, J. J. Vandergrift, Charles Pratt, Daniel O'Day, Oliver H. Payne, John D. Archbold.
†Notably, Ida Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning.
**In that year he resigned as president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.